Note 20 — A. PERSIUS FLACCUS
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dare pondus fumo: Casaubon comp. Hor., Ep., 1, 19, 42: nugis addere pondus. Horace uses the expression in the sense of ‘attaching importance.’ Persius means that these trifles are fitted to lend importance, to give seeming substance to mere vapors. Fumus is a synonym for ‘humbug.’ On dare idonea = idonea quae det, see G., 424, R. 4; A., 57, 8, f.